{"id":26439,"date":"2026-05-01T11:50:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=26439"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:50:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:50:31","slug":"we-heart-the-boys-of-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/we-heart-the-boys-of-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"We Heart \u201cThe Boys of Maine\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" title=\"May 2026\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23f5f5f5&amp;d=may_2026&amp;hideIssuuLogo=true&amp;pageNumber=34&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p2\">Titus Washington, returning star of the Hearts of Pine, exults with us about the success of the team so far as the soccer club explodes into its second season.<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p2\">by meaghan maurice<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Just when you believe nice guys never finish first, in roars the Hearts of Pine. The team is a phenomenon among phenomena. Merch for the club is selling in all 50 U.S. states and 35 countries. \u2018The Boys\u2019 are winning the hearts of Mainers and lovers of Mainers worldwide. Striker Titus Washington takes us closer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Tell us about your early years as a soccer player growing up in the San Diego area. Did you always dream of playing professionally?<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the full story in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26441\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hearts-of-pine.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hearts-of-pine.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hearts-of-pine-980x513.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hearts-of-pine-480x251.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striker Titus Washington<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1508],"class_list":["post-26439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-may-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26439"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26442,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26439\/revisions\/26442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}